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USSM breaks new ground, maybe

I’ve heard the inclusion of my piece “Bugs Bunny, greatest banned player ever” in the next Best American Sports Writing Annual makes USSM the first baseball blog and possibly the first blog of any kind to break into that hallowed series. I’d have to hit the library and look through the archives to check, and it’s strange to think that might be the case, but looking through the table of contents available for the last couple of editions, there’s ESPN.com and Slate, but I don’t see anything… this being the internet, I’m sure if that’s not true someone will be here to break up the party momentarily.

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22 Responses to “USSM breaks new ground, maybe”

argh on
February 21st, 2007 12:10 pm

Sincere congratulations are due here — and when you’re writing those cover stories for Sports Illustrated (hey, what happened to the smart tag?s), pause every once in a while to think of those of us left behind listening to the ballgame in a barbershop.

Yes – as it turns out, the years run one back, so this edition, containing stuff from 2006, doesn’t come out until later this year, in 2007, and the submission cycle runs off-year by a couple months, which led to my confusion over editions/deadlines and whether it was going to get in. Also, you went back and looked that up? Really?

No, when I was searching through Google “‘best american sports writing’ bugs bunny” returned that comment.

Sometimes the Google-fu is strong in me. Sometimes, I can’t find my ex-girlfriend I last saw in 1996 so I can return her stuff as we get ready to move. Andrea Murphy of Burien, WA, please pick up the white courtesy blog.

jetking on
February 21st, 2007 1:40 pm

Congrats! That was one of the first things I read here and it’s a big part of why I’ve kept reading. I mean, any site that’s going to pull that one off has my loyalty.

If anybody gives you flak about licensing, I’d offer to help with your fair use argument.

joser on
February 21st, 2007 5:13 pm

Congratulations DMZ! Too bad you can’t get a piece of the boost in rental/purchase income for the DVD of that Bugs cartoon. Heh, perhaps you can get WB to do a special edition release and have you do the audio commentary? (Hey, it worked for David Schmader and “Showgirls”!)

dw: how old would your ex-gf be? Any chance she’s gotten married? That’s typically how women “disappear” on the internet. FWIW, a litle search fu turns up an Andrea Boures (nee Murphy) who would be ~39 now.